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Wednesday Workout: Developing an Annual Rollerski Time Trial with USA NoCo

FasterSkierAugust 2, 2017

From late June into early July, U.S. Nordic Combined hosted a major training camp in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Among the sessions was the Fish Creek Time Trial, a skate rollerski race first held in 2007. That year, Johnny Spillane set down the first in a series of course records that would be improved by different athletes in the next decade. The time trial is 8 kilometers and gains 885 feet of elevation, starting just south of...

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USA Nordic Transitions as Jarrett and Schafer Step Down

Jason AlbertMay 4, 2017

Listed at the bottom of a U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA) press release Until 2014, USSA managed the U.S. Nordic Combined Team. The team is now run by USA Nordic, yet Jarrett’s position has remained under USSA’s umbrella — they continued to pay his salary. With the 2014 split, Jarrett’s responsibilities grew as he took on both coaching duties as well as some of the logistics of running a team. “Honestly, it’s amazing he lasted as long...

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Spillane Calls It a Career, Explains Decision Before 2014 Olympics

Alex KochonApril 23, 2013

Last week, Johnny Spillane announced his retirement after well over a decade on the U.S. Nordic Combined Team. The four-time Olympian explains why he decided to call it a career before the 2014 Winter Games.

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U.S. Nordic Combined Team Enters Another World Championships with Big Expectations

Alex KochonFebruary 22, 2013

With at least six World Championships under their belts, the U.S. Nordic Combined veterans know what to expect in Val di Fiemme, and jumping coach Chris GIlbertson said it's going to take big performances to reach three medals in four events.

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Fletcher Continues Ascent with Podium Finish in Seefeld

Audrey ManganJanuary 20, 2013

Taylor Fletcher kept on rolling in Seefeld, Austria, on Sunday with a third place in the Gundersen normal hill competition. It was his first career World Cup podium finish.

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U.S. Nordic Combined Preview: Three Medals and More Quota Spots (Updated)

Alex KochonNovember 13, 20121

Note: This preview has been updated to include comments from Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane. The way U.S. Nordic Combined Head Coach Dave Jarrett sees it, why tweak something that works? Last year was a success by many measures with four athletes interchangeably placing in the top 20, some often in the top 10. Olympic gold medalist Billy Demong hit the podium in his comeback season after taking some time off to raise a baby,...

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Demong Achieves World Cup Podium for First Time in Two Years; Fletchers Tally Career Bests

Alex KochonFebruary 6, 20121

When Friday didn’t go according to plan for all of the Americans on the Nordic Combined World Cup, they were happy to have Saturday to shoot for better results. When the team sprint went better on the second day of competition in Val di Fiemme, Italy, with the two U.S. teams cracking the top 10, the four members were even more excited for Sunday. If trial and error told them anything, they figured they’d have...

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Pittin Sweeps for Italy; Demong and Spillane Notch Season Bests

Alex KochonJanuary 15, 2012

In some ways, starting off average works well for Billy Demong. It’s not that he would prefer to rank 21st out of 54 athletes, although for some nordic combined athletes, that would be a good jump in the World Cup. For Demong, a four-time Olympian and gold medalist, that result meant he was about 20 spots away from where he wanted to be. On Sunday, the 31-year-old attacked the afternoon 10 k Gundersen start as he...

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Pittin Picks Up Second-Straight Win; Spillane Makes Top 10

Alex KochonJanuary 14, 2012

A day after Alessandro Pittin became the first Italian to win a nordic combined World Cup event, the Olympic bronze medalist repeated his success, edging Jason Lamy Chappuis of France on Saturday in Chaux-Neuve, France. After ranking 22nd of 54 athletes in the 118-meter large hill jump, Pittin went on to catch the leaders in the 10 k Gundersen start and pulled out the victory in a photo finish with Lamy Chappuis and Fabian Riessle...

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Lamy Chappuis Wins NoCo World Cup, Americans Led By Lodwick in 23rd

Audrey ManganDecember 12, 20111

Jason Lamy Chappuis (FRA), the overall World Cup winner last winter, was back on top of the podium on Sunday for the second day of Nordic Combined competition in Ramsau, Austria. “Of course I’m very happy that I can wear the yellow bib again, it’s a familiar feeling,” said Lamy Chappuis to the FIS media after his win. The 25-year-old has been on the World Cup podium 42 different times, and has stood at the top...

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Demong Leads US NoCo Team With 11th

Audrey ManganDecember 10, 2011

Last weekend in Lillehammer, Billy Demong’s 11th place was discounted due to a penalty lap miscounting error in the new Nordic Combined pursuit format. In Saturday’s Gundersen format World Cup in Ramsau, Austria, he remained consistent with 11th place—improved, if you consider that last week he would have finished further back if he’d done a fourth penalty loop. Norway’s Jan Schmid won on Saturday with his first career World Cup victory. Two of Schmid’s teammates...

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Kids in Tow, U.S. NoCo Racers Ready to Go

Alex KochonNovember 18, 2011

If the U.S. Nordic Combined Team got together for Thanksgiving, there might be less football watching and more talk about the kids. That’s the way life is for almost half of the seven-man squad, with each of the “Big Three” aged 30 or older and with at least one child. “It’s a different dynamic than it has been in the past,” said head coach Dave Jarrett, who has two kids of his own. “But it’s...

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Spillane Returns to Competition, “One Step at a Time”

Audrey ManganSeptember 8, 2011

Johnny Spillane, three-time Olympic silver medalist in Nordic Combined, returned to competition last week at the FIS Summer Grand Prix. After a long knee injury recovery and subsequently difficult World Cup season left the 31-year-old’s plans for the future up in the air, his participation marked an important decision to continue skiing. The question remains, however: how long will he be back for? When an odd cliff jump landing put Spillane out for four months...

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Demong, Fletcher Lead U.S. to Promising Start at Summer Grand Prix

Audrey ManganAugust 29, 2011

Bill Demong and Bryan Fletcher led their Nordic Combined teammates to a “reassuring” start of competition this weekend at the FIS Summer Grand Prix in Saturday’s Complete Results (Gundersen start)

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Lodwick Re-Ups, Spillane Considering Future

Topher SabotMarch 24, 2011

The most successful group of nordic athletes the US has ever seen? Unquestionably. With a grand total of nine individual Olympic and World Championship medals the trio of Billy Demong, Johnny Spillane and Todd Lodwick have more hardware than all other US cross-country, nordic combined and biathlon athletes combined. With the World Cup season coming to a close in Lahti, Finland two weeks ago, the questions have begun – is the band breaking up? The...

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Five Guys and a Sewing Machine

Inge ScheveMarch 24, 2011

The US Nordic Combined team travels around the world with the usual gear: skis, boots, poles, race suits, iPod. …And a sewing machine.

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Germany Comes Up Short in Second Straight NoCo Race; US 6th

Topher SabotMarch 4, 2011

Second chances are few and far between in professional sports, but with the International Ski Federation adding a second Nordic Combined Team event to the 2011 World Championships, Germany had just that. After taking the silver in the first team competition on Monday, Germany extended an impressive streak of five straight World Championships finishing second. The extra opportunity would not change the results however, and the Germans once again came up short, this time by...

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Americans Fourth in First Team Comp. in Oslo; Austria Wins

Nathaniel HerzFebruary 28, 2011

Five years ago, a fourth place finish for the Americans in a nordic combined team event at World Championships would have been tough to swallow, since U.S. medals at major competitions had been few and far between. But in the season following the 2010 Olympics, which saw U.S. athletes take three silvers and a gold, collecting the “wooden medal” in their first of two team events in Oslo was merely a mild letdown. “Considering I’m...

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Oslo 2011: Nordic Combined Aiming for Podium in Team Comp

Inge ScheveFebruary 27, 20111

Monday features a team competition on the normal hill, and the US Nordic Combined team is looking to improve on their first race at the 2011 World Championships.

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2011 Oslo – NoCo: US Racers Fast in the Track, Lack on the Hill

Inge ScheveFebruary 26, 2011

While the Americans posted some of the best cross-country legs – in fact, the fastest time of the day belonged to Bill Demong who ended up in seventh place and was the top American – the jumping left room for improvement across the board.

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